In response to the controversy, Jamie Lee Curtis decided to clarify her statements in an interview with Variety. She emphasized that her comments had been misinterpreted and, in some cases, mistranslated. “An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as if I wished him well, like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t. I was simply talking about his faith in God,” Curtis explained. She added, with a touch of irony, “So it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not. In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time. I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza. You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way.’”
